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Walter Williams: What's Gone Wrong With Democracy?
Creators Syndicate ^
| March 25, 2015
| Walter E. Williams
Posted on 03/23/2015 10:43:49 AM PDT by jazusamo
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:43:50 AM PDT
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jazusamo
To: jazusamo
They started letting idiots vote.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:44:57 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: jazusamo
Walter William should be asking:
" What's Gone Wrong With Democracy DemocRATS ? "
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:45:23 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: jazusamo
What’s wrong with Democracy?
It’s a fancy word for mob rule.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:46:52 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Yosemitest
Does he even know this Nation is a republic, not a democracy?
To: Still Thinking
They started letting idiots vote.
____________________________________
Hey Now!
No slamming the 19th Amendment.
(ducking for cover)
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:47:17 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
To: jazusamo
Walter Williams: What's Gone Wrong With Democracy? Nothing. Democracy was always a failed system. Our nation wasn't founded as a Democracy, but was instead founded as a Republic. The problem with Democracy is that fools vote, whereas in a Republic, the rules are more stringent.
It is no accident that as the nation has come to more and more resemble a Democracy, that it has gone off the rails. Democracies always do.
The Voting franchise needs to be restricted to only those people who are paying the bills that government runs up. People voting while paying nothing, will always vote for whomever gives them the most goodies.
People paying for the goodies, will vote for those who minimize the goodies being paid out. One system is financially viable, the other is not, and will collapse.
Guess which one we're living in right now?
To: jazusamo
Democracy is a horrible idea to begin with, that why our Founding Fathers established a limited government republic and why voting in federal elections was limited only to property owners. I do see their wisdom more clearly with each passing day.
To: Resettozero
I believe Dr. Williams is fully aware of that, read the article.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:47:49 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
To: jazusamo
He is right. If my neighbor came to me and told me to give him 40% or 50% of my income so he could live without working, I’d tell him to pound sand. If he tried to force me to, I would call the police and he would be arrested. But if a majority of my neighbors did so, I’d have to do it or I’d be arrested. Democracy does commit suicide once, as my tagline says, the people find they can vote themselves money.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:47:52 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Resettozero
He a LIBERAL!
Of course he does, but he SCREAMS THE LIE, ANYWAY !
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:48:02 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Resettozero
Apparently you’re not particularly familiar with Walter Williams.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:48:04 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: jazusamo
We’re not a democracy. My opinion of WW just went down 2 notches.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:49:13 AM PDT
by
albie
To: jazusamo
By contrast, in a democracy, the majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives. The law is whatever the government deems it to be. Rights may be granted or taken away. Then I guess we live in a democracy since our laws are whatever Obama and the Democrats say they are.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:49:24 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
To: jazusamo
It lives up to its name..............
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:49:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: jazusamo
Walter Williams: What's Gone Wrong With Democracy?Too many found out that they could vote themselves gifts from the public treasury...
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:50:10 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: jazusamo
Democracy: Three rapists and two women voting on how to spend the afternoon.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:50:15 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: DuncanWaring
Democracy:
3 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner..............
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:50:34 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:51:13 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
To: jazusamo
> What’s Gone Wrong With Democracy?
Why nothing. Karl Marx considered democracy the first step to socialism and eventual communism.
The United States is NOT A DEMOCRACY. The United States is a Constitutional Republic.
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posted on
03/23/2015 10:53:44 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit for a gun?)
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